Mosque shooting suspect in court:
The man suspected of shooting at people inside a Norwegian mosque on Saturday, and of killing his Chinese-born stepsister, appeared in court on Monday with black eyes and wounds on his face and neck.
A judge gave police permission to hold 21-year-old Philip Manshaus in custody for an initial four weeks while he is investigated on suspicion of murder and breach of antiterrorism
law, the court’s ruling later showed.
Manshaus, who briefly smiled at photographers, does not admit to any crime, his lawyer said.
Witnesses said Manshaus entered the al-Noor Islamic Centre with several guns, but was overpowered by a 65-year-old member of the mosque, who managed to wrestle away his weapons in the fight that followed.
Manshaus wore a helmet camera, filming the shooting, but did not appear to have broadcast the attack, according to prosecutors. (RTRS)
Kyrgyz ex-prez arrested:
The head of Kyrgyzstan’s security forces on Tuesday accused ex-president Almazbek Atambayev on Tuesday of planning to stage a coup, state news agency Kabar said, following a deadly clash last week with police sent to his house to arrest him.
Atambayev surrendered on Thursday when police raided his home and detained him for questioning over a corruption case, laying bare a power struggle with his successor Sooronbai Jeenbekov that has pushed the Central Asian nation to the brink of political crisis.
Atambayev’s supporters had repulsed a similar raid the previous day in which a deputy commander of a special forces unit was killed.
In an indictment related to the botched raid, prosecutors on Tuesday charged him with murder, hostage-taking and causing mass unrest, Kabar said. (RTRS)
Atambayev has dismissed criminal investigations against him as politically motivated and illegal.
National security chief Orozbek Opumbayev on Tuesday accused the former president of seeking bloodshed.
“Then, blaming it on the authorities, he would have been able to stage a coup,” Kabar quoted Opumbayev as saying.